Funding of the next election

Regarding the financing of the second round of elections, Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles announces that the government will solicit international partners, but ensures that an envelope will be dedicated in the amending budget for the continuation of the electoral process with or without support of the international.

Agreement and Commissions of verification, the houses divided

Ronald Larèche, Vice President of the Senate and the President of the Lower House, Cholzer Chancy, reiterated their commitment to the agreement of 6 February.

For their part, the opposition in the lower house: the spokesman of the GPI (G11), Antoine Rodon Bien-Aimé and the vice president of GPEP (G33), Sinal Bertrand, are demanding to the President a.i. and Prime Minister the creation of a Commission of Electoral truth.

In the Senate Senators Antonio Chéramy (VERITE), Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aimé (FANMI LAVALAS) and Ricard Pierre (PITIT Dessalin) continue to demand the formation of the verification commission of the 2015 elections. Senator Chéramy ruled in favor of a parliamentary commission of verification recalling that the Constitution allows each of the two branches of the legislature to investigate all matters it is seized.

Governmental retreat

Wednesday at the Karibe Convention Center, President a.i.Jocelerme Privert, accompanied by the Prime Minister, Enex Jean-Charles, attended the launch of the Governmental Retreat. The purpose of this retreat was to familiarize the new ministers with working mechanisms of Public Administration and the opportunity for each minister to present its roadmap and achieve a draft government action plan "We have no right to fail because the nation expects a lot of us," insisted President Privert.

For his part, the Prime Minister urged ministers to implement the vision of the President of the Republic and to be at the service of the people, recalling that there was "no time for thanks. We are in a situation of budgetary austerity [...] We want a coherent government and cohesion in government action. I rely n you to contribute to this coherence and cohesion."

Wise statement of the First Lady

The First Lady, Dr. Ginette Michaud Privert had a meeting with the "Women's Coordination Unit" who presented their grievances relating both their defeat in the last elections than the feeling of great frustration that they experience through their exclusion. The First Lady said that "the struggle of women should not be conducted against men but with them, for the triumph of equity and the participation of all in a true democracy, where parity prevail."

Aviol Fleurant received the Ambassador of Switzerland

Aviol Fleurant, the new Minister of Planning and External Cooperation, received a courtesy visit from the Ambassador of Switzerland accredited to Haiti, Jean Luc Virchaux. During a brief work session Minister Fleurant briefed the diplomat of Switzerland of his determination to reform the cooperation component of the Ministry, one of the essential axes in the development process of Haiti.

HL/ HaitiLibre